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"Stetson Country"
Is work too frustrating for you? Do you feel the need to get away? Of course you do! One of the many hidden messages in advertising is the need to escape the daily events in our lives. Whether it be work, home,or school, we are still thriving for a vacation. One of...
A Day in the Baseball Field
In the true account of her first American baseball game, Lesley Hazelton expresses how "the game" served as her code to understanding the American culture. She uses "American" products and icons to support the unfolding of her understanding. She found "that...
All American Ways
America, unlike other countries, has no true culture of its own. Though somehow people manage to know what America is all about. Some think of it as a far away land of hopes and dreams; others think of it as a rapid moving very modern world. The truth is that America...
Education's Cutting Edge
Children and the youth are the foundation of our entire country. Smart kids, adolescents, and young men and women rock our world. It's important to educate these kids and send them out into the world to see what they will accomplish. And they will accomplish. These...
Bundle of Joy?
Ah...Just another lazy Sunday morning. A teenage girl is asleep in her bed. She wakes up, yawns, and stretches, very much aware of the comfort of her own bed and the much-needed sleep. Then she is jolted out of her reverie. The baby is crying. Again. As she...
The Message Behind the Rose
Advertising influences virtually every aspect of the consumer industry. Advertisers create a feeling of need for a product and consumers buy in order to enhance their appearances,lifestyles, or careers. Invading all spaces of public announcements from billboards to...
Paul's Character in "Paul's Case"
Pauls's Case is the story of a young man who struggles with his identity. Paul feels that he knows where he belongs, but his family and teachers refuse to support his choices. In the middle of Paul's Case, there is a switch in narration. At this point, the reader can...
The Mass Media Advertisers
(Introduction) Advertisements bombard the public from radios, televisions, billboards, and newspapers. Critics say the public's perception of reality is warped by the materialism, sexism, and stereotypes portrayed in mass advertising. The obvious purpose of ads and...
A Violation of Rights
Every weekday, students go to school to receive an education. But this was not the case for Hazelwood East High School students in the Journalism II course. Rrecently, they learned the First Amendment\\\'s guaranteed rights-freedom speech and of the press-does not...
The Real World
I sit on the edge of the couch with my body tilted slightly forward and my elbows resting on my thighs. My wrists hold my head up as my eyes glaze at the bright box before me. I hear a distant voice calling my name but I shut it out as I am truly engaged in my TV...
What it Means to Have an Idea?
The Greek philosopher Socrates once said “The unexamined life is not worth living.” This statement is often used as a starting point for philosophy in its quest to examine everything. In the same sense, the analytic writing common in academics requires the...
Me? A Sexist
Usually, I'm a quiet, simple kid, nothing special, just trying to make my parents proud of me like any average student. For some reason, though, I'm a sucker for a sexist. Not just all sexists in general, but male sexists, or as I like to call them, "Pigs!"...
Rain Man So Complex, Yet So Simple
One of my favorite movies is “Rain Man.” A person could watch this movie over and over again. It provides insight to the personalities of an autistic man and his brother. Dustin Hoffman superbly plays the role of the autistic man, and Tom Cruise marvelously renders...